28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
11 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:38:15PM +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote:
I'd also say SEQ24 is your best run for your time.
GTK, very lean, very
simplistic. Does what you want. One drawback: Sequence lengths cannot be
arbitrary, 1,2,4,8,16,32 or 64 bars. If this is a showstopper I would
recommend writing to the author (or starting a campaign for people to
write to the author) and ask for that.
I had another look at Seq24 after James posted about it. I've actually
hooked it up to Puredata before, and it was fun to play with, but I hadn't
realised that it had an inbuilt song structure arrangement facility. That
is really wonderful and hence Seq24 looks like my choice for this
project. I might take the next few days before the keyboard arrives to
hack the code a bit and put in the ability for arbitrary length sequences.
Another option is Jazz++, which is fairly good but
doesn't get a lot of
press for some reason. It's cross-platform but fairly lightweight on linux.
Looks good. Weird that I can't apt-get install it in Debian. Maybe if
they had screenshots on their website it would get more attention. I'll
probably compile this one and give it a run.
Still, I'd love to see Seq24 implement arbitrary
sequence lengths
myself... and it's such an exceptional program in how useful it is and
how simple it is at the same time.
Yeah it really seems to strike that balance wonderfully!
Chris.
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